Thanks to both MasseyWV and the Kid, I have done more with this project than I had planned. Seems that if you fix one thing there is something right next to it that will look worse unless you clean that up too. Everything here is frozen and tomorrow with 40 F there will be too much slush and mud to take it out of the barn for outside pictures. Spring is on its way though.
The cannon is at Gettysburg. It was the first cannon we saw after parking the truck. I wanted to load it but I found out that they plugged the barrel to within ten inches from the muzzle. My wife had to explain to me the reason for that, "because of people like you".